In honor of Black Friday I thought I would post this map (found at Tech Crunch) sent in by Dimitriy T.M. last November. The map was put together by eBay to show the distribution of all U.S. buyer and seller transactions (which won’t be equal because some percentage of both buyers and sellers are outside the U.S. and so weren’t counted) that took place on Black Friday, 2009:

Happy shopping!

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